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Title: Imperial Valley settlers' crop manual
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Coit, J. Eliot, b. 1880 Packard, Walter E. (Walter Eugene), 1884-1966
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: Berkeley : University Press
Contributing Library: University of California, Davis Libraries
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cial scale. Only a few varieties can be expected tobear well and the trees are apt to fail early on account of sunburn,root rot and other troubles. Still a small quantity of fair quality apples may be grown forhome use. Some years there is a second crop of indifferent quality.It is very important to head the trees quite low and to prune 6o as toshade the trunks. As to varieties, the Bismark and the Red Astrachanhave been reported as doing well, while Arizona experience indicates 170 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION. that Gravenstein, Black Ben Davis and White Winter Pearmain wouldbe promising varieties to test. It is quite possible that in the futurelocal seedlings will be developed which will be far better adapted to theclimate than any of the above mentioned varieties. APRICOT. Of all deciduous fruits, probably none are more at home in theclimate of Imperial Valley than the apricot. The crisp, sunny wintersand hot, dry summers seem to furnish just the conditions needed by
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Fig. 12.—Newcastle apricots with cantaloupes between. Trees cut backto 24 inches from ground in February; photo taken on June 17th,following. this fruit. Of course an unusually late frost may occasionally kill theblossoms of the Newcastle, but this is the exception rather than therule. Up to the present time the acreage planted in Imperial Valleyis much larger than that of any other tree fruit, there being 30,000trees at present growing in the county. Wherever irrigation and cul-tivation have been attended to with even moderate care, the trees havemade a fine growth and are bearing heavily. In some cases the treesbegin to bear the second year. Ripening, as they do, at the time ofyear when the danger from rain is slight and the relative humidityof the air is very low, the alternative of drying the product (in case Bulletin 210. imperial valley settlers CROP manual. 171 the market for fresh fruit is not encouraging) is open to the growers.There is usually no trouble, however, in selli

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